Pyrometer, &amp;c.



G. F. MACHLET.

PYROMETER, &c.

APPLICATION FILED DEc..21.1914.

Patented Feb. 18, 1919.

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GEORGE F. MACHLET, OF ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY.

PYROMETER, &c.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb.'1s, 1919.

Application led December 21. 1914. `v`vSerial No'. 878.207.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GERGE F. MACHLET,

'a citizen of the United States, residing in Elizabeth, in the county of Union and nState of New Jersey,"have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pyrome- Lters, &c., of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to pyrometers and other thermotic devices intended to be operated or affected by high heat, such as heatregulators, heat-recorders, etc.

The heat of a member which is exposed to the flames or gases of a furnace, is substantially lowered by means of a liquid, such as water; and the heat of this member, which is neither so hot as the furnace nor so cool as the liquid, forms a basis for the use of any thermotic device.

In carrying out the invention, a copper tube is inserted in a flask containing water,

the lower end of the tube projecting below the flask in the form of a nipple to be exposed to the high heat. The water surrounding the tube absorbs a large portion of the heat of the tube; a condenser being provided for dissipating the heat which is abisorbed by thel water. The water remains always at the boiling point, that is, at a substantially fixed temperature, during the fluctuations of the heat in said tube; and therefore, by ascertaining the heat of the tube, it becomes a simple matter to ascertain the degree of heat to which the nipple is exposed.v An exaggerated scale may be used, so that, for instance, an elevation of one degree in the actual heat of the thermotic device will read as four degrees on said scale. Thus very high temperatures may be ascertained. It will be seen that a heat-measuring or other thermotic device is inserted in a heat-'absorbing sheath, the latter containing a heat-absorbing medium in the form of liquid having a substantially stable boiling point, to establish a uniform or substantially unfluctuating normal temperature` for the thermotic device far below the temperature to which the sheath is actually exposed, and

to protect the thermotic device as well as the sheath itself from being injured by such heat.

The sheath comprises a tube to contain the thermotic device and a water or other liquid jacket therefor. It is a desideratum in making devices of the class herein described, that the part exposed to the heat of the furnace trouble experienced in making devices of this class, has been that the water was apt in some cases to be pumped out of the sheath by the action of the steam bubbles rising therein. Where the heat of the furnace was moderately high, I have been able to overcome this trouble by enlarging the diameter of the sheath in cross-section. However, in order to adapt the device for extremely high heats, a sheath of very large and therefore objectionable diameter would be required. In order not to increase unduly the size of the sheath for highest heats, I have divided the sheath by an internal partition into outer and inner channels, one channel for the rising hot water and steam bubbles, and the other channel for the descending cooler water. By means of this expedient it becomes practicable to prevent the pumping out of the entire sheath by the action of the steam rising therein, since one of the channels will always be filled with descending the coolest portion of the water in the Sheath.

The central thermotic tube may be jacketed throughout; the lower portion being jacketed by the hot water, and the upper portion by the steam rising from the water,

so that uniformity of action of said tube is secured; or, in other words, a substantially uniform heat-base is secured from which to v ascertain the higher heat of a furnace.

The steam rises from the main ask through a pipe containing said thermotic tube, and passes from the upper end of said pipe into the upper end of a condenser. In

*the latteris a tra-p through which the water of condensation drops back into, the flask. The heat of the furnace may be indicated in a variety of ways; the means illustrated in this instance being a pressure gage which has a movable indicator or needle attached to a spiral tube; a p ipe leading `from said spiral tube to a bulb, and the bulb being inserted in the bottom of the thermotic tube in said sheath. The bulb may contain a suitable liquid; and as the heat increases, the' liquid .evaporates, and the vapor, being confined,

consequently increases in pressure, thereby affecting the spiral tube, which swings the needle. The invention, however, ifs not limited to this particular variety of device for indicating the heat of a member inserted in the thermotic tube; as other forms of pyrometers may be employed.

The needle may move across a disk, on

which may be marked a scale to indicate or closure to close -a vent forming part of a heat-regulating train, -This train includes Va diaphragm, which is held up by compressed air, so long as said valve or closure keeps the vent or regulating port closed; but upon movement of the needle beyond thev point ef regulation, said vent or port will be opened, and the pressure of air will be reduced, and the diaphragm permitted to drop. To the diaphragm is connected `a valve device which controls the fiow of fuel to the furnace, and hence the supply of fuel is reduced. -The temperature of the furnace lowers, and the needle moves back, vthe regulating port or vent is closed, and the diaphragm rises, thus opening thevalve which permits more fuel to flowA into the furnace.' By this means the heat of the furnace, although very high, may beV finely regulated.

Other features and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a diagrammatic sectional elevation showing the vpresent improvements applied to a gas furnace, for ascertaining and regu-latinv 'the heat in the flame-chamber thereof. he bulb of a vapor-pressure orpneumatic thermometer is inserted within the heatreducing and standardizing sheath, projecting through the wall. ofthe furnace into the flame-chamber and ,terminating in a nipple containing said bulb. To the needle of the thermometer, which is preferably of the recording variety, is connected means for controlling a pneumatic heatregthe sheath showing the fbulb of the ther- -furnace` having increased beyond the maxipressure of the vapor of a liqui 'the thermometer 13, which may have a ulating valve in an air-and-gas mixer which supplies fuel to the furnace; the point at which regulation takes lace being manually adjustable. The regu ation-port is shown closed; the heat of thefurnace beingl indicated at about the maximum, desired heat', and the mixer valve being still open tosuppljuel.

ig. 2 is a central sectional elevation of motic device inserted therein, and also showing the condenser. l Fig. 3 is a fragmentary section of the lower endof the sheath, with its interior tubular partition, dividing the same into so downiow and upow channels.

`Fig.- 4 is a fragmentary view similar to the right-hand portion of Fig. 1, but showing the regulation-port open, the heat' of the mum desired heat, and the valve being closed to temporarily cut oii the supply of fuel. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary view on a larger scale of a knife-edge mounting of a heatcontrolling arm.

Into the dame-chamber 1 of a furnace 2 projects the sheath portion 3 of the invention, the same preferably extending down through the top 4 of the furnace. At its lower end the sheath terminates in a nipple 5, of copper, nickel or other suitable metal,

-which may be exposed to the i-ames of the furnace. This nipple 5- may merge into a long tube, 6 supported centrally within the sheath, and inserted in said tube may be any desiredthermotic device, as for instance a thermometer tube, as shownin my copending application No. 579,056, filed August 26, 1910 (Patent No. 1,193,911, dated August 8,1916);but in the present in- 105 stance, there is inserted in this tube 6 the bulb 7 of a recording thermometer, 'which may depend for its 'operation u on the 'in the bulb -7 which is exposed to the tempera- 110 ture to be recorded. The invention, however, may be used with thermometers which do not record, with a variety of other thermotic devices, accordingl to theuse to which the invention is to be put. At its upper end the bulb terminates preferably wlthin the lower portion of the sheath, in a hollow stem or pipe 8, which\may have a protecting jacket 9; the pipe and its jacket extending up from the sheath at^10, and being preferably exible and of considerable length, leading to the -casing which contains the mechanism for turning the needle 12 of record disk 14.

The sheath 3 serves as a water or liquid jacket for the lower portion of the tube 6 containin the t'hermotic device; and at its upperfen may open into an enlargement or flask 15, partly filled with water 16, so that 130 Y in the actual heat of the nipple 5 and tube 6 shall be proportionate to the fluctuations in the actual heat of the furnace; such standard or normal temperature being far below the temperature to which the sheath is actuy ally exposed.

The diameter or transverse capacity of the sheath or well 3 is made so great as to avoid or eliminate the possibility of pumping action due to the formation of steam bubbles in the: lower portion of the well. /Vhen the sheath, tube or well 3 is made narrow, bubbles are apt to form and expand until they are of suhcient size to fill and be confined' by the cross-section of the well, and these expanding bubbles then tend to lift the water bodily out of the well and wholly or partially empty it of water, and hence interfere with the function of the cooling and heat-standardizing sheath; but this difficulty may be avoided by making the well of such large transverse section or area that the. expanding bubbles are free or unconined, and hence nopumping action of the bubbles can take place, whereby the well is kept always filled with water, with resultant uniformity and reliability of action.

The well 3 is divided by an interior tubular portion 17 into outerupflow channel 1:8 and inner downflow channel 19, thus securing smoothness of flow, 'and insuring that the coolest portion of the`water in the tube shall flow directly upon the thermotic tube 6. The bubbles will mainly or altogether rise in the outer channel 18. and hence not be apt to impair the efliciency or steadiness of the tube 6, as a standardizer of heat, the submerged portion of said tube being always in contact with water throughout which is but little if a-ny impregnated with steam bubbles. The outer channel 18 is of suiiicient diameter to prevent being pumped out by steam bubbles. At its upper end the partition-tube 17 may terminate within the flask in a Haring or funnel-like mouth 20, of such proportions as to gather a large proportion of the cooler water settling in the flask.

A device is provided at 21 for condensing the steam rising in theask 15. This condenser may be arranged above the llask; the Vsteam rising in apipe 22, which at its upper end opens at 23 into the upper end of the condenser 21; the latter containing a tank 24, from the upper end whereof leads an outlet pipe 25 to a cooling coil 26 (Fig. l), from which extends an inlet pipe 27 terminating in the lower portion of the tank 24. The water of condensation accumulat-A ing in a well 28 in the bottom of the condenser, passes through a tra 29 provided in the top of flask 15, and` rops into the iask; the trap being in the form of an in.

verted cu within which the condensed water rises, an up into, which extends an outlet tube 30 through which the water drops. The trap will prevent steam from rising ldirectly from the flask into the!l `lower portion of the condensation chamber.

The portion of the thermotic tube 6 within the ask 15 is of course jacketed with steam, and the pipe 22 forms a continuation of the steam-jacket; whereby the tube 6 may be entirely jacketed, its upper portion with live steam and its lower portion with the water from lwhich the steam rises; thus aiding in establishing the desired standard or normal or unfluctuating temperature, surrounding the tube 6, since the jacketing tends to shield the thermotic tube 6 from all influences or eliminate all influences'. which would affect its heat, save the exposed nipple 5 which is exposed to the heat whose temperature is to be ascertained or otherwiseA utilized by the thermotic device in tube 6. The well 3,- taken with the flask '15 and the pipe 22, may be taken as comprising a sheath for the thermotic tube 6,v for protecting the tube 6 andestablishing a normal or standard temperature far below the actual temperature to which the device is exposed.

The furnace flames may be produced by burners 31, connected to'feed pipes 32, receiving the fuel from a supply pipe 33. This pipe ,connects with a gas and air mixing apparatus, comprising a chest 34 having separate gas and air chambers 35, 36, into which said chest is divided by a partition 77. The gas chamber contains an outlet box 38, and the air chamber contains an outlet box 39. The gas outlet box has onnosite upper and lower ports 40, and the air outlet box has similar ports 41. All four ports are in line. Thereare four valves 42, one for each Dort, all valves fixed upon a single vertical stem 43, guided partly in partition77, and partlv V in a bushing 44 in the top of the chest. All

four ports are closed simultaneously or opened simultaneously. An adjustable stop 45 may be provided for limiting the closing movement, so that the supply of the fuel to the furnace shall not be reduced below a certain minimum, which may be set at any desired point. The lifti 0' of the valves may alsobe regulated by an :ildjustable stop 46.

The valve stem 43 is fixed at its upper end to a weighted flexible diaphragm 47 mounted in an air-tight chamber 48, having an inlet pipe 49 below the diaphragm, forscompressed air, and a vent 47a above the diaphragm. The

pressure of the compressed air below the diaphragm keeps the same raised and the phragm would drop, more or less, to diminish the supply of fuel linsures uniform valves 42 open; but if the pressure of the compressed air should fall, the weighted diaand the valves 42 close is provided in the discharge orifice 51 of lower the gas chamber, which may be arranged just at the junction of the elbow-shaped outlet 52 of the air chamber with the supply pipe v3,3.

For controlling the pressure of air in the thereby regulating the supply of fuel to the furnace, the needle or movable member of the mechanical thermometer (or other de- -vice under theeontrol of the heat of the furnace) may be connected by a link 53 with a closure 54, the latter mounted on the end of anarm 55, pivoted at 56 preferably above the pivot of needle 12. The closure 54 may be counterbalanced by a weight 57 to secure ease and reliability of action, and the link 53 may work on knife-edge pivots as shown;

both these provisions tendmg to secure delicacy 'of automatic' regulation of the heat of the furnace. The closure 54 is are or Segment-shaped, and is designed to close a regulation-port 58 leading to the inlet 49 of they diaphragm chamber 48.` When the port l58 is open, the pressure in the diaphragm chamber is reduced, and the supply of fuel yto the furnace diminished accordingly. The

connection from the regulation-port 58 to the inlet 49 comprises a hollow arm or tube 59, and a iexible tube 60, the on a nipple 61 in the inlet 49.

The degree of heat at which regulation latter fitting shall take place may be predetermined by manthe segment 54 will be' swun ual -adjustment, of the regulation-port 58 along the segmental' closure 54; the tube 59 forthis purpose being carried upon an arm 62, pivoted concentrically with the arm 5,3 and segmentl 54. The tube may be provided With-a handle 63, and also with anndex 64, to coperate with the same graduations 65 on the'disk 14 as the needle 12. The attendant grasp's the handle 63 and swings arm 59 around itspivot, setting the regulation port 58 -to the. right or left until the index 64 points tothe desired graduation on'the disk or scale 14. Then as the furnace heatsup, to the right by the needle 12 until the regu ation-port 58 is partly or wholly' uncovered', whereupon air pressure in diaphragm chamber 48 will diminish, and the supply of fuel to the furnace will be cut down. Upon the consequent reduction of the heat of the furnace. the needle 12 will swing` to the left, closing the port 58,

part of diaphragm chamber 48, and

Lacassey 'the port 58 may be great enough to insure efiiciency of the re lation notwithstanding the narrownessof e port as seen at Fig. 1. In other words the port may be much broader than it is wid As seen at Fig. 5, the manually adjustable 'y arm 62 may be fixed upon a pivot-stud 67, whichV may have a friction collar 67 a, or may be fitted tightly in its arm 62 and port 58 wil-l be held where adjusted. In this pivot-stud may be formed a vV-shaped depression 68 extending along the stud, to contain a knife-edge 56 projeetin down from the lower end of closure-arm 5 The provision of the knife-edges at the various pointsshown, renders the action very delicate and reliable; and the vibration vof the knife-edge Y(56 will be very slight in its bearing 68, slnce the latter is shifted around by means of the handle 63 to the point at which the work of the knife-edge 56 is to be done. The counterweight 57 may be carried upon an arm 70, which may be of hook form and attached to arm 55 at a point above the knife-edge 56, as shown at Fig. 5. The thermometer` scale is graduated according to the actual heat of the furnace, as shown, the notations on the scale being far in excess of the' actual heat of the thermotic device itself. A record 71 may be made on the disk 14 by means of a pencil tip 72 on the end of needle 12. Said pencilmay be clipped or fastened vdirectly upon the outer end of a helical tube 73. seen inedge view, the inner end of this tube being fixed, and in communication with the bulb 7 through the pipe 8, 10. Heating the liquid in the bulb 7 increases the pressure of the vapor in the pipe l 8 and helical tube 73, causing the outer end of the latter to turn, thus swinging the needle 12.

The invention however is not limited to this particular form of thermotic pressure gage, as other gages or otherthermmeters' bearing, so that the f water or liquid jacket surrounding said tube in said heat-chamber but leaving said nipple exposed to the heat, and terminating at its outer end in aV flask, water filling said jacket and partljv filling said flask. and means to condense the steam rising in the flask and returning the water of condensation to the flask, said water jacket being divided by an interior partition into an inner downflow channel for water and an out-er upflow channel for steam bubbles.

Q. In combination, aheat-absorbing sheath into whichY a heat-measuring or thermotic device may be inserted, said sheath containing a medium in the form of a liquid having a substantially stable boiling point, to establish a standard or normal temperature for the thermotic device far below the temperature to which the sheath is actually exposed, and to protect the thermotic device from being injured by such heat, and a condenser to condense the steam rising therefrom and return the water of condensation t0 the sheath, said sheath having an interior partition which divides it into upflow and downflow channelsY in communication with said condenser for steam bubbles and water of condensation, respectively.

3. The combination of a thermotic tube, a

water or other liquid jacket for the lower portion of said tube; said tube at its lower end terminating in a nipple for exposure to high heat, said nipple projecting below said water jacket; and a steam jacket for the upper portion of said tube, said steam jacket connected to said water jacket, to be filled with steam from steam bubbles rising in said water jacket.

4. The combination of a thermotic tube, a water or other liquid jacket for the lower portion of said tube; said tube at its lower end terminating in an exposed nipple to be subjected to high heat, and said water jacket at its upper portion merging into a fiask; a steam tube or jacket rising from said flask and surrounding the portion of said thermotic tube above said fiask, to be filled with Steam IOIII steam bubbles rising in said water jacket; and means for condensing the steam rising in said tube and conducting the water of condensation back to said water jacket.

5. The combination of a thermotic tube, a water and steam jacket inclosing said tube throughout nearly its entire length; the lower end of said tube terminating in an exposed nipple or part to be exposed to high heat, and the upper portion of the jacket to be lled with steam from the bubbles rising in the water in the lower portion of the jacket; and a device for condensing the steam rising in said jacket.

6. The combination of a thermotic tube. a Water and steam jacket inclosing said tube throughout nearly its entire length; the

lower end of said tube terminating in an exposed nipple or part to be exposed to high heat, and the upper portion of the jacket to be filled with steam from the bubbles rising in the water in the lower portion of the jacket, said jacket being enlarged .between its ends to form a flask, and a device for condensing the steam rising in said jacket and conducting the water of condensation back to said flask.

7. The combination of a thermotic tube, a water or other liquid jacket for the lower portion of said tube; said tubeat its lower end terminating in an exposed nipple, and said water jacket at its upper portion merging into a flask; a steam tube or jacket rising from said flask and surrounding the portion of Said thermotic tube above said flask, said nipple to be exposed to high heat, and said steam tube or jacket to be filled with steam from the bubbles rising in the water from the nipple; and a condensation chamber leading from the upper portion of said steam jacket and having a return to said flask.

8. The combination of thermotic tube, a water or other liquid jacket for the lower portion of said tube; said tube at its lower end terminating in an exposed nipple, and said water jacket at its upper portion merg` ing into a flask; a steam tube or jacket rising from said fiask and surrounding the portion of said t-hermotic tube above said flask; and a condensation chamber leading from the upper portion of said steam jacket and having a return to said flask; a trap being provided between said drum and said condensation chamber, to prevent steam from rising directlj7 from the flask into the condensation chamber` whereby the upper portion of the thermotic tube is exposed to the heat of the rising steam.

9. The combination of a thermotic tube, a water or other liquid jacket for the lower portion of said tube; said tube at its lower end terminating in an exposed nipple, and y said water jacket at its upper portion merging into a flask, a steam tube or jacket rising from said flask and surrounding the portion of said thermotic tube above said flask; a. condensation chamber leading from the upper portion of said steam jacket and having a return to said flask; and a water tank within said condensation chamber, said tank containing an inflow tube extending from the upper to lower portion thereof. and an exterior cooling coil or device being included between the tank and the inflow tube.

10. The combination of a tube` a water and steam jacket inclosing said tube throughout nearly its entire height or length, the upper part of said jacket to be filled with steam from bubbles rising in the water in the lower part thereof; the lower c nd of said tube terminating in an exposed nipple;

and a vapor-tension thermotic device comprising a tube terminatlng in a sensitive bulb, s aid thermotlc-device tube and bulb inserted in the first-mentioned tube and emerging from the top thereof, with the sensitive bulb Within said nipple.

11. The combination of a thermotic tube to extend into a heat chamber and form a nipple therein, a Water jacket .surrounding said tube and extending' at one end tosaid nipple and terminating at its other end in a flask device, water or other liquid said jacket and partly filling said flask device, and an interior partition dividing said water jacket into a downow channel for water and an upiiow channel for steam bubbles. a

` 12. The combination of 'a thermotic tube to extend into a heat chamber and form a nipple therein, a Water jacket surrounding said tube and extending at one end to said nipple and terminating at its other end in a, ask device, water or other liquid fillingA 

